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shooter
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 Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? I'm jealous of the variety of rigs and custom boats that come out of LA. Wish I could fly out there and drive one back to CA, but that's not in the cards. Can anyone recommend the best option get a full setup (boat/motor/trailer) from LA to CA? Does Uship handle that sort of thing?
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butternut
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Location: EAST ARKANSAS
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tinman454
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Location: Ontario ,Canada, eh!
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? U- ship was the cheapest one i could find to bring a boat to Canada. But it was still more money than I wanted to spend. I ended up going down and picked it up myself and still saved money over trucking costs. Think of it as a payed vacation to get your boat.
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robertb4wd
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Location: Bridge City, Texas
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? Where are you located? I could just plan a hunt/vacation and bring it. Thinking of taking the family out west again. Could drive instead of fly.
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dguidry
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Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? I did a sample request on the usip website and the estimated cost was about $1500 from Loreauville to California. That's shipping boat, motor and trailer. There must be a dealership in California unless EPA restrictions make it impossible to sell there.
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CLICKSTER
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? Cheapest way would be set up a hunt and hunt a few days with a few local guys. heck you will be driving right by my home town. i could put you up and take you hunting a few days and make the trip a hunting trip and then when you leave grab ya boat and head home.
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dguidry
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? Just checked. There are no dealers West of Texas. If I were you I'd just buy the motor and have it shipped in a crate. I'd have a local custom builder build a hull to one of the proven specs. Buy a local trailer. You'd have a complete rig in about 10 weeks or so. Any way you look at it, it's gonna be cost prohibitive to have a complete rig shipped to you.
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Formerly:1648 Homemade Cypress Crawfish Skiff GTR23 Performance Cam and Heads; 17x46 Gator Tail with 35GTR and Hoyt's cam;s Currently: 17x48 Gator Tail with XD40 EFI.
“Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger.
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45th parallel
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? This... or buy a few to haul back yourself and become a dealer.
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shooter
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? Becoming a dealer would be encouraging competition!  I like the idea of coming back there for a hunt the best, I appreciate the offers. Hell, mebbe I could finally talk BB outta one of them pretty PD skegs! Seriously, there's not much out here in the way of mud rigs let alone a hull builder with any clue. You guys got it going on in spades!
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MDMarsh
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? What about Gator Trax? They will ship a complete rig to quite a few Bass Pro Shops. Looking on their website there is 1 in CA. Its flat rate $550 for them to ship. That's the route I went because there isn't much in the way of builders here in Maryland either.
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brycecheramie
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast? I also checked on uship, and got a bid (just for the hell of it for you ) for 585 for them to ship it, and they said it would take them 5 days to get it to me. Not too bad to me. Im in la, and i put in San Diego as a destination.
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dguidry
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“Wisdom is not just expertise. It is knowing how much of various areas of expertise you need to know in order to make the decisions that the world needs and that you want to do,” Columbia University President Lee Bollinger.
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brycecheramie
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shooter
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Re: Best (cheapest) way to ship a full rig to west coast?
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